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<H1>Talking RSS Reader</H1>

<H2>A Talking Google Reader app for Android</H2>

<P>By St&eacute;phane Doyon <CODE>&lt;sdoyon@google.com&gt;</CODE>
<P>Copyright &copy; 2009 Google Inc.

Google Code project page: <a href="http://talkingrssreader.googlecode.com">
http://talkingrssreader.googlecode.com</a>

<H3>How it works</H3>

<P><B>Talking RSS Reader</B> fetches a feed of articles from
<a href="http://google.com/reader">Google Reader</a>
and shows articles one by one, in reverse chronological order.

<P>It begins reading each article out loud as soon as it is
displayed. The sentence currently being spoken is colored in green.

<P>Speech can be interrupted and restarted by pressing
the <I>CALL</I> button.

<P>To move to the previous or next sentence, spin the trackball up
or down while the app is talking.

<P>If the text is scrolled, speech will pick up at the first full
sentence from the top of the screen.

<P>Links can be selected with the finger, or trackball when the app
is not talking. Clicking a link launches the browser, which does not talk.

<P>You can have sentences spoken one at a time by holding
the <I>CALL</I> button and spinning the trackball up or down.

<P>The <I>Next</I> and <I>Prev</I> article buttons are located at the
bottom corners of the screen, where they can easily be tapped without
looking. Each article is marked as <I>read</I> after you click
<I>Next</I>.

<P>If you are a first time user of
<a href="http://google.com/reader">Google Reader</a>,
you may need to initialize your account by going to
<a href="http://google.com/reader"><CODE>http://google.com/reader</CODE></a>.

<P><B>Talking RSS Reader</B> requires network connectivity.

<H3>Credits</H3>

<P>Thanks to GP from 
<a href="http://www.livelyblue.com">LivelyBlue.com</a>
for the beautiful icon.

<P>Thanks to Robert Shield for assistance testing the UI, layout
advice, javascript hints and more. Thanks to Roger Tawa for useful
discussions about Android. Thanks to Siggi Asgeirsson for
encouragement, in particular for the javascript scroll tracking. All
errors are nevertheless my own.

<P>This application contains a modified version of the text-to-sppeech
library for Android from the
<a href="http://eyes-free.googlecode.com/">Eyes-Free project</a>.

<P>This application also uses the
<a href="http://htmlparser.sourceforge.net"><B>HTMLParser</B></a> library.

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